Poor HR Practices and Unmanageable Workload - Anonymous employee Adstream Employee Review

2.0
14 Sept 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The colleagues were supportive and collaborative, but they need to realize they are being oppressed.

Cons

Post-Acquisition Restructuring & Blame Game: After the Adstream takeover by Extreme Reach, the Kuala Lumpur office was forced to become a "global office," taking over all markets. To make matters worse, teams from other markets who were retrenched because of this restructuring are leaving angry reviews that unfairly blame the KL office. Unfair Compensation & Mass Exodus: The company's refusal to fairly compensate employees for their expanded workload has resulted in a significant number of resignations. Employees are still paid a local Malaysian salary for a global workload. Incompetent HR Department: The new HR team, brought in after the takeover, is woefully incompetent. They are painfully slow to handle basic administrative tasks but are lightning-fast when it comes to penalizing staff for minor mistakes. Egregious Public Holiday Policies: The company has no respect for Malaysian labor laws. Employees are forced to work on both Malaysian and international public holidays to cover markets after mass retrenchment. Illegal Holiday Pay: The only compensation offered for working on public holidays was time-in-lieu, which was later changed to a pathetic flat rate of RM250. This is a blatant violation of Malaysian labor law, which mandates double the daily salary. Extreme Workload: The decision to dump all the work from other markets onto the KL office has created an unmanageable and unsustainable workload, leading directly to employee burnout and a complete lack of work-life balance.

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Pros

Decent pay, good benefits, good and hard working people, approachable management, good work life balance.

Cons

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5.0
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Pros

- Every knows how to work and laugh throughout the day - Everyone acts as team here - Communication is relied upon heavily here and everyone does it well.

Cons

I haven't been here long enough to bring up any cons but in the time I've been here, I have no real cons as of yet. I mean long periods of sitting is always a con but you're not constrained to sitting all day so it works out.

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